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...when they believe people do not see the big dollar sign through the sham of their propaganda." Wild Oklahoma broncos would not drag the name of the "one group" from Dr. Phelps, but no hearer doubted that he meant the American College of Surgeons, which, in its campaign for higher standards of surgery, has vastly increased the surgeon's jurisdiction as against the G.P.'s. ¶ Medical care in general costs too much, said Dr. Francis D. Moore, surgeon in chief of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (TIME, May 6), to a meeting of New England...
...that] sets itself apart from the world by a discipline, a language and an attitude. The attitude is that of contemptus mundi, a scorn for the ordinary pleasures and privileges of life. The language is no longer Latin but mathematics, and this is the universal tongue in which the higher rituals of the order are conducted all over the earth. The candidate who presents himself for ordination must mortify the flesh through long years of labors in the laboratory. His reward is membership in a community which holds powrer and profit in contempt in its zealous devotion to a higher...
GROCERY SALES are running 6% to 10% higher than same time last year and food processors are doing as well or better than in 1957, says Grocery Manufacturers of America...
...into immediate opposition from Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, biggest brokerage house. The proposed increase, said Merrill Lynch's Managing Partner Michael McCarthy, discriminates against the small investor, who will pay 30% more on a $500 transaction. He argued that most brokers are getting an adequate return despite higher operating costs, since commission earnings of Wall Street houses after partners' compensation and expenses run an average of 10.1% before taxes. But most Wall Streeters thought the chances were better than even that commissions would...
...major domestic producers, and Western Congressmen are still talking about a sick industry and pressing for a 4?-a-lb. tariff, placing the "peril point" where the tariff would go into effect at 30? (TIME, Feb. 10). While producers feel that the users' inventory liquidation is about over, higher copper prices can come only with a pickup in demand by major copper consumers...